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FIRST PUBLISHED AT THE LINE OF BEST FIT
Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
8.5/10
On their first album ‘Limbo Panto’ Wild Beasts got painted by some as peddlers of a contrived English eccentricity that was unfashionably arch, all barbershop harmonies and old world camp. While many were turned off by their falsetto front man Hayden Thorpe, whose gymnastic [...]

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I’m The Man Who Loves You
8/10
It took me a long time to come round to Wilco. I had always wrongly thought of them as a square man’s Flaming Lips. While there are superficial resemblances between the two bands, Wilco’s experimental brand of alt-country is focused on more classic pop concerns. The sonic adventurism of Yankee [...]

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‘Something to Look Forward to’
8/10
Anyone who got into Spoon’s later albums, ‘Gimme Fiction‘ and ‘Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga‘, will certainly not want to miss out on 2002’s ‘Kill the Moonlight‘. Spoon are a hard band to categorise, at once both willfully experimental and with plenty of crossover appeal. They make lean, concise alt-rock-pop (if [...]

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Labour of love
6/10
Die hard SFA fans will be queuing up to award their latest effort five stars, so it seemed necessary to put forward an outsider’s point of view. I am hardly new to the band, but wouldn’t call myself a fan. I enjoy a few tracks on Radiator and liked their last record, Phantom [...]

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